MOSCOW, September 05. /ITAR-TASS/. More than six hundred people have been evacuated from a supermarket in the southeast of Moscow as a result of short circuit, the press service of the Moscow head department for emergency situations told ITAR-TASS.

"As a result of the short circuit at one of the boutiques inside the supermarket, Auchan, situated at Lyublinskaya Street, electricity supply cables caught fire," it said.

Fire brigades arrived on the scene three minutes after the fire alarm was raised.

The fire has been extinguished. A total of 650 people were evacuated from the building, there were no casualties, the press service said.